D.R.I.

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (also known as D.R.I.) are a crossover thrash band that formed in 1982.
The band never gained any mainstream audience, but were an influence on their contemporaries—most notably Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, and S.O.D.—alongside whom they are considered the early pioneers of the sound that would later be called crossover thrash. This genre was also coined from their 1987 album ''Crossover''.
To date, D.R.I. have released seven original studio albums, of which the last was released in 1995. Since then, the band has continued touring and going on hiatus off and on. In 2004, D.R.I. released a web-only demo track "Against Me", their first recording in a... Continue Bio >>